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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 344, 8 October 1875, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.) * — : ' : Dunedin, Thursday, 8 p.m. At the inquest on the body of Haley a verdict of '• justifiable homicide" was returned. The jury added a rider commending the warder for his action. The Legislative Council, by 23 to 4, carried the second reading of the Abolition Bill Sir George Grey's Bill for abolishing the duties on tea, coffee, sugar, and flour was strongly opposed by the Government, and was rejected by 41 against 15. -- At the inquest on the body of the child found in a sugar bag, in the Water of Leith, on Ist October, a verdict of "found dead" was returned. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court were concluded to-day. Alfred Hutchcson, alias German Charlie, for larceny, was sentenced to three years; Eobert Hunter, arson, six months; Richard Beattie, assault with intent, acquitted; Anne Hardy, larceny, three years; Thomas White, larceny, three years; Alfred Goodal 1 , larceny, twelvemonths; A ndrewCaldwell, embezzlement (two charges), six years; Michael Golding, larceny, two years. It is understood that Parliament will be prorogued on the twentieth instant. Twelve special jury cases are set down for hearing at the civil sittings of the Supreme Court, commencing on Monday. Castaway is scratched' for all his engagements at the Christchurch No\ ember meet' ing. ' • " '• ' - . A rrivod—the ship Taunton, from London. The Strathmore is given up for lest. The Alhambra is at the Bluff. Sirs George Bo wen and Julius Vogel leavefor the Colonics by the Deer, one of the San Francisco steameis. Obitunry : Lady Darling and Lady Don. The London 'Times' publishes a tele-ram from Shanghai, stating that the Chinese have evaded the promised terms agreed to at Tientsin. Vigorous steps will be taken by the English Government if necessary. An Admiral, with four war steamers, is now at Uhee Foo. The French Minister, in a speech showing the growing prosperity of France, said the indirect taxation amounted to sixty or seventy million irancs above the estimates. - ■ .- >■ AUSTU.A.LIAN. The inquny info ilie loss of the. Cambridgeshire, at Indent. L laud, resulted in Captain ■Marshall's w rLfkute being suspended: Tor twelve lnunl.lis. ' .. . ' - . '!'■> y.-iii • .si™-: fr "Pen Ho. G.ipi.p, cc-biivms the nmtsaire ui the James .HjjUii. t-' i-iov, jin'.l tie liuidns: of the vcfeel.'

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